Chapter 13. Command-Line Reference

This chapter presents full detail about how to invoke abuild
from the command line. Some of functionality described here is
explained in the chapters of Part III, “Advanced Functionality”.

13.1. Basic Invocation

When running abuild, the basic invocation syntax is as follows:

abuild [options] [definitions] [targets]

Options, definitions, and targets may appear in any order. Any
argument that starts with a dash
(“-”) is treated as an option. Any
option of the form VAR=value is considered to be
a definition. Anything else is considered to be a target.